Only 48 Shopping Days Left...

...for you to add to my precariously teetering to-read pile. I've already documented my considerable backlog of unread books, and am vowing not to buy more any time soon. (Or at least through December, anyway.) But that shouldn't stop you from feeding my addiction, if you're so inclined. Here's my wish list at Powell's. Unfortunately, Powell's doesn't allow you to rank your selections in order of preference like that monolithic virtual shopping mall (hint: starts with "A") does, so here are my top choices:

Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Shalom Auslander, Beware of God: Stories
Benjamin Nugent, Elliot Smith and the Big Nothing
Joe Meno, Hairstyles of the Damned
Colin Meloy, The Replacements' Let It Be
Antonino D'ambrosio, Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer

By the way, unless there's a glitch in Powell's website, it looks like somebody already bought me the Saul Bellow Library of America collection. If you're that someone, thanks in advance!